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Suzy Klein

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Suzy Klein.

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well-known musicians reveal their favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five pieces of music for winter.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 2 Dec 2020 09:00

Music Played

  • Costanzo Porta

    Sinfonia in D major

    Performer: Simon Munday. Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • AVIE.
  • Anon.

    Veni, veni, Emmanuel - Advent hymn [French missal]

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Anne Dudley

    Veni Emmanuel

    Performer: Studio chorus and orchestra.
    • Echo.
  • Franz Schubert

    Hungarian Melody in B minor D.817

    Performer: Florian Mitrea.
    • ACOUSENCE.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Concert champ锚tre (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Maggie Cole. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Poulenc: The Concertos for Solo Keyboard: Hickox.
    • Virgin.
    • 9.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no.1 in C minor Op.68 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • Brahms: Complete Symphonies.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 103.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Venere bella (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Natalie Dessay. Orchestra: Le Concert d鈥橝str茅e. Director: Emmanuelle Ha茂m.
    • G. F. Handel: Cleopatra: Arias from Giulio Cesare: Natalie Dessay/Emmanuelle Hai.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Cello Sonata in F major, Op.5 No.1: II. Rondo

    Performer: Rapha毛l Pidoux. Performer: Tanguy de Williencourt.
    • Beethoven: Cello Sonatas, Op. 5.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 102.
  • Claude Debussy

    Sir猫nes (Nocturnes)

    Choir: Les Cris de Paris. Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Debussy: Jeux, Nocturnes, Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr茅s midi d'un faune.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 105.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Tonight (West Side Story)

    Music Arranger: Henk Huizinga. Performer: Gwendolyn Masin. Ensemble: Melisma Saxophone Quartet.
    • Bernstein: West Side Story (Arr. H. Huizinga for Violin & Saxophone Quartet) [Li.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 1501.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no. 2 in D major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph Koenig.
    • Farrenc: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Vision for piano

    Performer: Philip Martin.
    • Gottschalk: Piano Music 6: Philip Martin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Forza del Destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: NBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini.
    • RCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mass in C major K.317 'Coronation' (Agnus Dei)

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Choir: The English Concert Choir. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • DG Archiv.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Le Corso (Le carnaval d'Aix)

    Performer: Jack Gibbons. Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Carnaval D'Aix - Carnaval De Londres etc New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    The Harmonious Blacksmith (Keyboard Suite no.5 in E major HWV.430)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • The Harmonious Blacksmith - Favourite Harpsichord Pieces: Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style (1st mvt)

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaityt臈-Storastien臈. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
    • ECM New Series.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Mendelssohn Felix and Fanny.
    • ERATO.
    • 7.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A London Symphony (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • DECCA.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Seasons (Winter - conclusion)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Singer: Jeremy Ovenden. Singer: Andrew Foster-Williams. Choir: Ch贸r Narodowego Forum Muzyki. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Orchestra: Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Haydn: The Seasons.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 219.
  • Joanna Lee

    Midnight Feast

    Performer: Hyeyoon Park. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Many Voices: 10 New Pieces for Violin.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 801.
  • Anonymous

    The Play of Daniel [Belshazzar's Feast] (Vasa Templorum)

    Ensemble: Harp Consort. Director: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu, Joy of Man鈥檚 Desiring

    Music Arranger: Myra Hess. Performer: Dinu Lipatti.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Jean Sibelius

    2 Serenades Op.69 (no.1 in D major)

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta.
    • Ondine.
  • Sir George Dyson

    Concerto da Chiesa (Veni, Emmanuel)

    Performer: Andrew Watkinson. Performer: Edward Roberts. Performer: Stephen Tees. Performer: Stephen Orton. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Cantata no.62)

    Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • J S Bach - Advent Cantatas.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 15.
  • William Grant Still

    Africa (Land of Peace)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Orchestra. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • NAXOS.

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